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7-letter words (1 found)

PROFFER,

5-letter words (7 found)

FRORE,OFFER,PORER,PRORE,REFFO,REPRO,ROPER,

4-letter words (8 found)

FORE,FROE,ORFE,PORE,PROF,REPO,ROPE,RORE,

3-letter words (19 found)

EFF,ERF,ERR,FER,FOE,FOP,FOR,FRO,OFF,OPE,ORE,ORF,PER,PRE,PRO,REF,REO,REP,ROE,

2-letter words (10 found)

EF,ER,FE,OE,OF,OP,OR,PE,PO,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 46 words from proffer according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of proffer

proffer

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English profre (“act of offering or presenting a gift; offer of something; challenge; sacrifice; act of petitioning or requesting; petition, request; proposal, suggestion; idea, thought; attempt, effort; appearance; (law) payment to the Exchequer by a sheriff or other officer of estimated revenue due to the monarch”) [and other forms], and then:

  • partly from Late Latin profrum, proferum (“payment to the Exchequer of estimated revenue due to the monarch (also puruoffrus), offer to convict a criminal”), and from its likely etymon Anglo-Norman profre, proffre, porofre (“payment to the Exchequer of estimated revenue due to the monarch; offer, proposal”), and
  • partly from the verb.

The verb is derived from Late Middle English prouffer, prouffre, Middle English profren, profer, proffere (“to offer, propose; to deliver, hand over, present; to take up; to volunteer; to dedicate; to attempt, try; to risk; to challenge; to provide; to ask, invite; to proceed, start; to grant; to argue”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman profrer, proferer, profferer, proffrir, propherer, proufrir, and Old French proferir, proffrir, profrir (“to offer, propose; to present; to volunteer”), variants of Anglo-Norman puroffrir and Middle French poroffrir, paroffrir, Old French poroffrir, paroffrir, porofrir, from por-, pur- (prefix meaning ‘to go through’ or having an intensifying effect) + offrir, ofrir (“to offer”) (modern French offrir (“to offer; to give as a gift; to open oneself up to (someone)”)). Offrir is derived from Vulgar Latin *offerīre, from Latin offerre, present active infinitive of offerō (“to offer, present; to exhibit, show; to expose; to cause, inflict; to consecrate, dedicate; to sacrifice”) (from ob- (prefix meaning ‘against; towards’) + ferō (“to bear, carry; to support; to endure; to bring forth; to put in motion; to move forward”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”))).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒfə(ɹ)/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɑfɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒfə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: prof‧fer

Noun

proffer (plural proffers)

  1. An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender.
    Synonym: proposition
  2. (obsolete) An attempt, an essay.

Alternative forms

  • profre, proffre (obsolete)

Derived terms

  • proffer letter

Translations

Verb

proffer (third-person singular simple present proffers, present participle proffering, simple past and past participle proffered)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To attempt or essay of one's own accord; to undertake or propose to undertake.

Alternative forms

  • profre, proffre (obsolete)

Derived terms

  • profferable (rare)
  • profferer

Related terms

  • prolate

Translations

See also

  • profer

References

Further reading

  • “proffer”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “proffer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “proffer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • proffre

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

proffer m

  1. indefinite plural of proff

Source: wiktionary.org